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Equilibrium :: Equilibrium (n.) A level position; a just poise or balance in respect to an object, so that it remains firm; equipoise; as, to preserve the equilibrium of the body..

Underpoise :: Underpoise (v. t.) To weigh, estimate, or rate below desert; to undervalue..

Equilibrious :: Equilibrious (a.) Evenly poised; balanced.

Balance :: Balance (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance..

Balance :: Balance (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

Poise :: Poise (v.) Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

Porpesse :: Porpesse (n.) A porpoise.

Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Not balanced; not in equipoise; having no counterpoise, or having insufficient counterpoise..

Balancement :: Balancement (n.) The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces.

Steem :: Steelyard (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To counterpoise; to counterbalance.

Homodont :: Homodont (a.) Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont..

Equipoise :: Equipoise (n.) Counterpoise.

Counterpoise :: Counterpoise (v. t.) To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

Dunter :: Dunter (n.) A porpoise.

Overpoise :: Overpoise (v. t.) To outweigh; to overbalance.

Poise :: Poise (v.) That which causes a balance; a counterweight.

Librate :: Librate (v. i.) To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised..

Outpoise :: Outpoise (v. t.) To outweigh.

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